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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779898303321

Titolo

Recovering Five generations hence [[electronic resource] ] : the life and writing of Lillian Jones Horace / / edited by Karen Kossie-Chernyshev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-60344-998-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; ; no. 120

Altri autori (Persone)

Kossie-ChernyshevKaren

HoraceLillian B

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

African American women authors - Texas

African American women educators - Texas

African American women authors

African American women educators

American literature - African American authors

Authors, American - Texas

Educators - Texas

Africa In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Five Generations Hence""; ""Part II: In Scholarly Review:""; ""To Leave or Not to Leave?""; ""Southwestern Female Authors:""; ""To Be a Publisher:""; ""Of the Coming of Grace:""; ""The Double Burden:""; ""Confronting the Other Side:""; ""Lillian B. Jones Horace and the Literature""; ""Lillian Horace and the Respectable Black Woman:""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Part I includes an edited and annotated version of Five generations hence, Lillian B. Horace's first novel, a utopia set in Africa. Part II consists of eight scholarly essays that grew out of a symposium, Celebrating the Life and Works of Lillian B. Horace and Other Extraordinary Women of the Jim Crow Era, held March 6-7, 2009 at Texas Southern University in Houston.